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    From The Millionaire@VERT to Digital Man on Fri Apr 3 15:30:29 2020
    Hi DM. How does a %s be used as a number and at the same time it’s also a word?

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to The Millionaire on Fri Apr 3 15:36:59 2020
    Re: % specifiers
    By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Fri Apr 03 2020 03:30 pm

    Hi DM. How does a %s be used as a number and at the same time it's also a word?

    A string of characters can contain decimal digits (i.e. '0'-'9'). Or it might consist of only decimal digits, but still be a string.

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  • From The Millionaire@VERT to Digital Man on Fri Apr 3 15:38:37 2020
    Re: % specifiers
    By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Fri Apr 03 2020 03:30 pm

    A string of characters can contain decimal digits (i.e. '0'-'9'). Or it might consist of only decimal digits, but still be a string.

    digital man

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    But how does the text.dat know which %s it’s using on the lines?

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to The Millionaire on Fri Apr 3 15:41:58 2020
    Re: % specifiers
    By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Fri Apr 03 2020 03:38 pm


    Re: % specifiers
    By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Fri Apr 03 2020 03:30 pm

    A string of characters can contain decimal digits (i.e. '0'-'9'). Or it might consist of only decimal digits, but still be a string.

    But how does the text.dat know which %s it's using on the lines?

    The order and type of the %-specifiers is significant. You can't re-arrange them. If you have a text.dat string with "%d %s", you can't change that to "%s %d" or the BBS will crash (for example).

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  • From The Millionaire@VERT to Digital Man on Fri Apr 3 15:49:13 2020
    Re: % specifiers
    By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Fri Apr 03 2020 03:38 pm

    The order and type of the %-specifiers is significant. You can't re-arrange them. If you have a text.dat string with "%d %s", you can't change that to "%s %d" or the BBS will crash (for example).

    digital man

    This Is Spinal Tap quote #6:
    David St. Hubbins: He was the patron saint of quality footwear.
    Norco, CA WX: 66.6°F, 54.0% humidity, 10 mph NE wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs


    For example (not real examples):

    “You have no %s.” 001 NoMail
    “There are %s messages on the system.” 002 NumberOfSystemMsgs

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to The Millionaire on Fri Apr 3 16:05:19 2020
    Re: % specifiers
    By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Fri Apr 03 2020 03:49 pm


    Re: % specifiers
    By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Fri Apr 03 2020 03:38 pm

    The order and type of the %-specifiers is significant. You can't re-arrange them. If you have a text.dat string with "%d %s", you can't change that to "%s %d" or the BBS will crash (for example).

    For example (not real examples):

    "You have no %s." 001 NoMail
    "There are %s messages on the system." 002 NumberOfSystemMsgs

    In both of those examples, those would be strings of character (text).

    digital man

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  • From Rampage@VERT/SESTAR to The Millionaire on Fri Apr 3 21:25:35 2020
    Re: % specifiers
    By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Fri Apr 03 2020 15:30:29


    Hi DM. How does a %s be used as a number and at the same time it's also a word?

    %s is a string... you really should check out the C printf formatting page(s) you've been pointed to in the past ;)


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